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Response to quarterly overdose report. Frank Singleton, Health Dept Director, says the epidemic is accelerating. Many users have switched from prescription drugs to heroin because it is so cheap. Also, there is synthetic fentanyl manufactured in Mexico that is very cheap and very deadly. Athletic injuries continue to be a…
Read More »Jim Peters has another installment of his review of events in Lowell in April 1865. Also, remember that the Pollard Memorial Library will present a free program this coming Thursday (April 9) at 7 pm commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The event is free, open to…
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It was a quiet week in Lowell politics. When I posted my notes on Tuesday’s City Council meeting, I mentioned that it had been the “least substantive” meeting of this council term. That’s not meant as a criticism; just an observation. This coming Tuesday’s meeting contains some interesting items. The…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: March 30, 2015 – Monday 12 Rogers St for $95,000. Prior sale in 2000 for $75,000 505 West Meadow Rd for $325,000. Prior sale in 1980 52 Lawrence Dr Unit 206 for $210,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $304,040…
Read More »The KhmerPost USA is a bi-weekly Cambodian language newspaper published in Lowell and distributed in communities with significantly-sized Cambodian communities up and down the East Coast (I sometimes contribute articles to the paper). In this week’s edition, an editorial by Roger Pin, the newspaper’s publisher, on the two Cambodian monuments…
Read More »Another in a series of articles about Lowell at the end of the Civil War, 150 years ago this month: The Confederate Army was far from finished at the beginning of the month of April, 1865. In fact, it was said that they had “some of the finest fighting men…
Read More »Real estate sales in Lowell from last week. Sorry it’s later than usual. March 23, 2015 – Monday 16 Floyd St for $188,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $122,000 18 Pine Hill St Unit 2 for $168,900. Prior sale in 1987 for $109,900 March 24, 2015 – Tuesday 19 Andrews…
Read More »Several procedural votes allowing sidewalk seating for downtown restaurant, etc. “Minor change to Acre plan” to incorporate Lord Overpass. Craig Thomas from DPD explains that this is the existing Lord Overpass plan. A small portion of it, the intersection at Fletcher Street, is within the boundaries of the existing Acre…
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Walkability and Public Transportation On Friday I had a meeting in Boston and for the first time in months commuter rail seemed back to normal. The 8:25am train left Lowell on time and had only an average crowd. When I took that same train a month ago, it was packed…
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On Thursday April 9, 2015 at 7 pm, the Pollard Memorial Library will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the Confederate Army of Robert E. Lee to Union forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. Although other Confederate armies fought on for another…
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